John T. Yudichak

Local Leaders From ... ... Northampton and Carbon County went before the Legislative Reapportionment Commission this afternoon, where they begged mapmakers not to carve off huge chunks of their territory in the once-a-decade redrawing of 203 House and...

The Next Meeting ... ... of the Legislative Reapportionment Commission isn't until next Monday, but Senate Republicans have released their proposed final map. The statement came from Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi's office shortly before 8 p.m. Full...

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. For reasons entirely too complicated to go into here, we're running seriously late this morning. So, without preamble or fanfare, here's a quick batch of links to get you going on this 8th day of......

Allentown gets a new state House seat, drawn to reflect the city's growing Hispanic population, and Monroe County picked up new Senate and House seats under a reshaping of Pennsylvania's legislative topography adopted Monday. Besides center city,...

Where's Bart Simpson And His Blackboard When You Need It? A coalition of environmental groups to more than a dozen lawmakers -- primarily Republicans -- for their votes on legislation that authorized a new impact fee on Marcellus shale natural......

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Boosted by a strong showing among women, President Barack Obama has opened up leads in three, key swing states over Republicans Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll out this.....

Allentown will still get a new House seat; the Poconos will get new Senate and House seats and Northampton County will go back to having two state senators under a new preliminary legislative district map approved Thursday. The 4-1 vote......

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Today is Monday, June 27, 2011. There are four days left in the 2010-11 fiscal year. Here's a quick rundown on where things stand at the moment. EDUCATION/VOUCHERS: House Republicans caucused last night without,...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. As Pennsylvania Republicans roll into town tonight for their fall meeting, they'll be confronting an issue as contentious as any one they've dealt with in recent years: Namely, Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi'...

Flood-stricken Pennsylvanians could qualify for extra financial assistance under a package of bills a group of northeastern state lawmakers say they plan to introduce later this week. State residents trying to rebuild their lives in the wake of historic...

A Freshman Democrat ... ... from northeastern Pennsylvania and a veteran Republican from the Philly burbs are teaming up on a proposal to tax natural gas drillers. The bill sponsored by Sens. John Yudichak, D-Luzerne, and Ted Erickson, R-Delaware, would.....

Sitting in a state House hearing on Gov. Tom Corbett’s $27.3 billion budget proposal last week, Charles Zogby reached his boiling point. Pressed repeatedly Corbett’s opposition to a severance tax on natural gas drillers, the usually...